skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And google is praised for having 3 years of support when most other Android phones have 2 or less.

I get not giving full OS updates for longer, but it seem like security updates for an expensive, important device that most people rely heavily on should be for 10 years at least.
I use TD and have never had a bad experience. Who do you bank with now? What made you switch?
I've got a suggestion for 2.

Wake up hella early and work on your side hustle before work. Your after work time will feel much more desereved at the least, and maybe just maybe something will stick in your mind from the morning that will make you want to continue on it later.

But maybe the last thing you feel like doing before work is more work.
For anyone in Germany (or any country which is blocked by this website), here is the raw html. Save it and open it with your favorite web browser :) http://paste.awesom.eu/Y36k
Doesn't https://www.netlifycms.org combined with Netlify itself (or any other CDN) achieve the same?
In case anyone else was about to waste a couple minutes of their life that they will never get back, a quick warning that you will never get the minutes of your life back that you lose paging through this very silly Python notebook, which was very clearly created to snow people who don't know what a Python notebook looks like.
The main advantage of electric planes is that VTOL capability is much easier with electric motors. You can have twelve cheap electric motors on the plane instead of one combustion motor. With that comes great maneuverability.

The second advantage is that they are fairly quiet.

Together, this is great for short "taxi" flights across natural barriers (fjords, mountain ranges), even at night and without need for actual airstrips at either end of the journey.
What do I do when they simply refuse to do what I am asking them to do? (2015)
I only see benefits given that electric powertrain is much more reliable, and quieter than piston engines, and that engines have much higher chance to stall on takeoff.
the irony of the downvotes proving your point is tasty
Would be nice to have an update on what's happened in the almost ten years since this article was written.
> it's easier to just buy a domain and route * to your inbox

There is the caveat of the domain getting into the wrong hands, if you look long enough down the road. What if you die, or simply can't afford to renew the domain well into the future? I know if I could look down from heaven after I die and saw someone re-registering my dropped domain, I would be furious!

Then there is the issue of even when you're alive, you could simply refuse to renew for whatever reason and the domain is suddenly someone else's.

MarkMonitor and Epik are the only companies that I know of that can safeguard against this. Epik has so called 'forever domains' and ensure the domain stays active well into the future.
Exactly. You "have to have one" even if it is nonsensical or meaningless (a number of these banners are on sites where the ONLY cookie ever recorded is one saying you've seen the banner!).
Definitely, I'd be happy to merge a PR! But nothing wrong with using pdocs. :)
What's your response to the activities highlighted in this 1m21s video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNM3K0cH2tc

Non transparency. Bullies chasing out witnesses and poll watchers.

Why?
> True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links.

Yea, as to create some sort of fairness in "guaranteeing" each new story a minimum number of views.
> Engaging further with our cultural and religious psychoses should be disincentivized

The sort of techno-optimism you're espousing here amounts to a religion as well. It's a religion to which the majority of the developed world appears to subscribe. It seems to be losing adherents to disillusionment, albeit incredibly slowly.

The prevalence of views similar to yours are one of the reasons why I don't foresee a positive future. I suspect society will continue down your suggested path of more technology and more resource consumption believing it to lead to some sort of salvation. I see it instead as the furtherance of human's destructive tendencies which have only grown more potent with every increase in humanity's capacity to effect its will via technological development.
Surely, ALL of them can't be lying.

Why not?
Of course they should be able to sue if the can show actual damages, but then that’s not chilling speech.

I took GP meaning that they want corporations to shut down anything they don’t like. That’s typically what’s meant by chilling speech.
Totally agree. Getting rid of Tether and holding them responsible sounds great.

But that has nothing to do with the long-term valuation of cryptocurrency. The part I object to, which is what many of the earlier comments are trying to say, is some version of “Tether & wash trading is bad, therefore bitcoin is nothing but hype / fake scams.”
> This targeting of the infrastructure layer is leaving a really bad taste in mouth.

The complained raised to LACNIC was a real one and once they investigated, it was no longer in relation to the content, but to their policies.

You may be in disagreement with that policy, but I personally believe it does make sense. There's a big shortage of IPV4, so it does makes sense that if you find out that they aren't used in your region, that you takes them out. Imagine how you would feel to be in the LACNIC region struggling to get a few IP to find out that Russian company got thousands of them from your region...

The strange thing though, is that they don't mentions anything about the actual infrastructure. Do they have the IP but used them in others regions? Or the mere fact that they weren't used locally was the issue? If I was LACNIC, I would have just required them to use local infrastructure, which I'm sure DDOS-Guard can do.
Do you have a link to anything that has been established as true in court? Because that link is pants-on-fire lying: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/russell-ja...
Has this changed in 3 years? Was the author really writing about modern C++, or C++ as he remembers it? One of the comments on that post is pointing out the introduction of std::array with C++11.
> You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable.

It would basically be OG Facebook, which was a pivotal point in the development of social media. Facebook pivoted to focus on massive populations where everyone interacted with everyone, instead of the small subset of people you actually know.

Perhaps I'm alone in this experience, but social media in 2021 is vastly different in both form and function to social media in 2011. I'm not making a value judgement on which is better, but the two things barely resemble each other to me.
>> these machines have been shown to be massively flawed

That statement goes against everything I've read about voting in the U.S.A. However, I don't think I have actually read everything. What did you read? Is there a link that I can follow?
Nice astroturf
> That's... not in Europe.

Israel is in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I think this is a good thing, hopefully it will bring to light any flaws that may exist in Dominion voting systems while testing whether any of these grandiose claims hold up to scrutiny.

And folks, let's not act like this is the first time voting systems have been scrutinized.
And if Trump had won, I suspect most of these comments would be critical of the absolutely sub-par security of our voting infrastructure.

But tribalism still rules, so lots of praise abounds about how well things went. Mostly because their opponent lost.

Frankly, we need publicly auditable records. For some reason we can request practically any non-classified data from the government... but not fine grained, anonymous voting data.

That nobody seems to think this is a problem is... well, not shocking. But when the party that Hacker News largely opposes wins in the future, I bet (hope) there will be calls to improve our infrastructure.
I disagree with your conclusion. Voting does not need to be made more convenient beyond preventing obvious voter suppression and making election day a federal and/or state holiday.
Additionally, a digital compromise of a fully digital system could compromise all votes. If the system has a nondigital artifact it can reference as a source of truth, then it can be validated, verified, and restored to truth.
Everything I've Read *
Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
I should definitely do that! I was streaming it on Twitch while I was building it earlier in the year but those episodes have expired now. Thanks for the suggestion
Everyone makes mistakes, but trying to write correct code is important. You have to be conscious of the consequences of what you write. You shouldn't rely on non-fixed-width types having specific lengths or on signed integer overflow, unless your code guarantees that things will work (preprocessor/static_assert checks against standard/compiler-specific properties). The worst offenders I see often is violating aliasing rules, especially in ways that could cause alignment issues.

In C, function isn't an object, you can't convert a function pointer as a void pointer and back, and use it. Yet I've seen that done many times, and it's probably safe on things that act as if they have a von Neumann architecture.

If I'm relying on implementation-dependent functionality, I try to make it so that whatever it is will fail to compile instead of having incorrect behaviour.
It’s not. It’s 1 per 100 million miles
Robinhood has gotten a lot of flak recently for the power they've given inexperienced traders, but without them this wouldn't have happened. They're really living up to their name.
That happens at the state level. In most, if not all states a football coach is the highest paid government employee
The common subset should probably be called something like "better C" - it won't be able to use any major (or many minor) C++ features. Basically, it will be ANSI C (give or take). Noticeably, the code for the 2nd Ed of The C Programming Language was tested using a C++ compiler, not a C compiler
> and is still an issue we globally need to address.

How are we not addressing the issue?
Income inequality isn't quite the spring-of-all-evils that it's being touted as. Although I think you are touching on some pressures and problems. Yes, it can be one of the factors in "othering" and can discourage commitment to a shared, common system, but I've been in lots of countries with low "inequality" that were far less trusting. True, it's apples/oranges comparison, but I'm not convinced that inequality is the source of our woes, but very likely amplifies it.
If that's the case, why would they elevate privileges on the main SO site and draw attention to their successful intrusion?
That's certainly cold. I was just saying from a relative position. For example, it's relatively warmer than the midwest.
Hm what I am interested in in particular is the following:
https://github.com/polygraphene/ALVR
ALVR lets you stream graphics to occulus quest and also android phones.

Which requires:
with NVIDIA GPU which supports NVENC
(or with AMD GPU which supports AMF VCE

I'm not quite sure if this is doable on an integrated CPU.

So for this particular case an intel GPU would be out of the question.

AMF seems to now be refered to as AME.

I suspect since this functionality is primarily used for streaming and or video editing it might not be present on CPUs for notebooks.

Quicksync might work.

Really I believe for this to work really smoothly the encoding needs to be hardware encoding.
Rather than the change in transistor design, I think the bigger news is the switch from silicon with dopants to silicon with germanium and dopants. The drop in threshold voltage from ~0.7v to ~0.3v might be one of the last levers left in extracting even more performance; at the cost of making semi production and equipment even more hazardous.
While the pax may not be sensitive to price, the providers still want to drive down their costs.

Probably plenty of people in BC that would loooooove the combo of quick transport and looking down on those carbon-burning ferry/bus riders going to the islands/Whistler.

Could likely sell tickets for more.

Taking a gas plane and buying offsets sounds as unfun at parties as someone saying they bought a Corolla and offsets. Technical correctness matters less than image.
I think we probably have a different experience of what works for us, which is (of course) totally fine and not unexpected.

For me, habits must be consciously decided things. I can introspect forever, but I need to create a system (supported by habits) in order to set myself up for success.

I appreciate the thoughtful and interesting reply, thank you!
> You start to mistrust all of the zealots forcing you destroy the economy^, handicap an entire generation of students, destroy the mental wellbeing of many millions, in order to extend the lives of the elderly and immunocompromised by a few years

Wearing a mask doesn't destroy the economy or hurt students. It's the cheapest possible intervention. If wearing a mask helps, it actually sucks the wind out of the sails of people who want draconian lockdowns. People with a libertarian bent should be even more pro-masks, since it's very nearly the only thing that everyone can do in their personal lives to try stave off massive government interventions.

If people can't mentally separate masks from the other interventions then that seems like a problem in itself.
I’ve been following this for a few months and it’s really interesting to me that retail investors could actually have this sort of influence on a non penny stock. Given the high volume of trading, it doesn’t seem like there would be enough buyers to drive the price up this high, and institutional buyers I would think are staying away from something that seems to move so far away from its fundamentals. This is very different from the run up in Signal Advance caused by Musk’s tweet or people buying the wrong Zoom stock. There is very real volume here.
It’s a bit worrying that total lies about a conspiracy between Dominion and (very much dead) Hugo Chavez to rig an election for Joe Biden is what gets classified as “dissent” these days. I’d normally use a different, eight letter word to describe that.

Defamatory statements draw lawsuits. Nothing terribly new or worrying about that.
Sorry, that was precisely my point. Commodities depend on their fungibility: that wheat is all durum and has an impurity level below X; the sulphur level of that crude oil is between Y and Z, and so on. Plus that the seller will deliver per the contract

There's a game theory argument that the system is somewhat self-managing; though you could defect in any single transaction your reputation would suffer and it wouldn't be worth it.

Perhaps it's a good counterexample because of its size: everybody purchasing directly in the commodities market (i.e. people who take delivery) can afford to have one bad batch because their volume is so high. But still, that depends on some degree of gatekeeping on the input side.
EK484K is a particular mutation, not a variant. It is common to a Brazilian variant and the SA variant referenced in the article.
We're never going to get climate change under control until we have carbon taxes. I don't get why conservative politicians aren't behind this? It's the definition of a libertarian free market solution! You could even make it revenue neutral by lowering income taxes. It's also arguably a better targeted tax. You tax the things you want less of. It's kind of silly to tax income when you could instead be taxing activity that's harmful to the planet. Far better for corporations to try and dodge taxes by emitting less co2 than offshoring to ireland.
I liked the idea, but I'm expecting the home page to be more like "https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/" with a link or banner link or something to the stuff it's at home today; at least having the links to trends at first instead of need to moving to the bottom to see them. I'm afraid some colleagues didn't found out and just kept on the first page.

You directly go to dark mode ;) it's more popular I known; I like to suggest a light mode; maybe you can read it from the system like StackOverflow.
Physics is full with such examples like thinking that space is Euclidean. Or coming up with the real numbers before the complex numbers and the resulting struggle.
Keeping a password on a Post it is still dangerous.
You linked to an abstract of the Russian vote manipulation behind a paywall. That abstract says nothing specifically about hand-count being manipulated.

Hand counting remains the golden standard for voting.
Something like aspergillus flavus could poison you, although you'd notice that because it would be clearly visible as a green mould with a terrible smell & taste. I homebrew myself and agree that poisoning from ordinary brewing (not distillation) is incredibly unlikely.
Using actually-functioning aircraft, as you suggest, would also be more plausible than TFA. The maintenance requirements of the specific aircraft you mention might preclude submarine deployment, however.
and australia IIRC
You'll pretty regularly see a story on the front page with a low double-digit score, especially during off-peak times. Point is, it doesn't take that many upvotes coming quickly to rocket a story to the front page.

I'm more frustrated at stories that get missed due to poor titles.

But that's kind of also true across all of life, so probably not something HN is going to solve anytime soon.
We're already there on foreign soil with Palantir's monitoring software. You don't need to read people's brains to invasively spy on them and arrest them without traditional probable cause
As much crazy that's happened recently, I can almost believe all of them could be lying. It is "MY TEAM OR YOU SHOULD DIE!" for some of these wackadoodles.
I'm sure it's easy to write a small script that spawns new tabs in the browser and opens several random sites from /newest. In-fact I am tempted to write a bookmarklet that does this. You could also code up something in Tampermonkey that automatically opens everything in /newest
I'm sure that if you bring this to court they'll settle any disputes we might have about it.
As the article is making a round-about way of pointing out, you might need to "block" (unwrap) due to a side-effect in order to make the sequencing correct for downstream logic that touches the same thing.

Shouldn't be necessary if things are coded appropriately in the first place, and maybe better to just refactor, but...
Similar to Apple's option https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425
No, by far.

Try to land such thing in a crosswind without lateral control authority.

That's hard even with just 10kg quadcopters, and a "flying car" will be completely unlandable without extra rotor mechanisation, negating electric power advantages.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/audit-in-michigan-county-r...
Imagine trying to assign a unique number to every bit of data your program uses, including stuff like text, pictures, etc. Such that some text that uses 100 bytes uses 100 numbers, a picture with 1,000,000 byte uses 1,000,000 numbers, etc.

You can just say "Start at number 0 and create a new number for each bit of data", but then maybe that JPEG your program uses occupies the same set of numbers as the text you're writing to. So you need to make sure it's all unique, and that each logical thing you're storing gets its own unique set of numbers. Easy enough, except data changes as your program runs, so every now and then you need to say "ok there's not enough space to store this thing, so I'm going to assign it a new number so that it doesn't conflict with this other data I have."

That works well enough, except what if parts of your software do stuff like "write value X to number 103820"? Will that do what you want? Maybe that code is responsible for updating some text somewhere, but what if that text grew too big and moved somewhere else? How do you know if the number it's writing to is actually the right text?

What's way worse, is that some of these numbers are used by the processor for bookkeeping on things like "what was the last bit of code I was executing before I ran this code?" and if you overwrite those numbers, you can cause the processor to do evil things.

That's memory safety. It's the idea that, if you just let code write to arbitrary locations in memory, it's very very difficult to do this safely. The answer ends up being to have languages that simply don't let you do that, and that's a big step towards having safe code. "Safe" languages instead only let you do things like "append to this data", which will automatically move the data to another address if it's too big. But they won't let you just write to arbitrary addresses. Even "Safer" languages ensure that one thread can't be in the middle of moving some data to a new address while another thread is trying to write to it, etc etc.

So to your question, it's very much like painting in that regard. If you start on one corner of the canvas and draw something way too big and don't leave yourself enough room, you'll paint over parts of the painting you wanted to keep. Since programs are super dynamic, the problem of making everything has enough space to be represented in a real computer, ends up being kinda hard, and the way older languages are designed can sometimes make it nearly impossible.
> However, there is a route on dev that can show email content to CMs and they use this to obtain the magic link used to reset credentials

So many sites do this: allowing major changes to be effective immediately (like resetting credentials/password) by simply opening a "magic link" sent by email.

I think that this "immediately" is a major security antipattern.

I prefer it when such changes have a "cooldown" period of, say, 72 hours, during which the change is "ongoing" but not effective yet and during which the user can veto the change (say by either login on the site, where they'd then get a warning that a major configuration change is ongoing, and denying the change on the site or by opening another "magic link", sent by email, which allows to deny the change).

It's not a perfect solution but it stops so many of these oh-so-common attacks dead in their tracks.

Because there's a big difference between being able to read an email meant to someone (as happened here, on the server side) and being able to prevent a legit user from receiving emails while also being able to prevent that legit user from login onto a website with its correct credentials.
WebFinger (2013)
Can you elaborate on this? I'm very interested, especially given your perspective.

The 2004 election also had its fair share of electronic voting criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_vo...
I remember Joel too. Especially also the forums where you could get in contact with (among others) industry leaders.

One of today's (tech) luminaries? For me it's Scott Hanselman. Always worth reading, even if you're not particularly on the Microsoft stack.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
well it just dumped.
Yes, googling laukku-leena will get you some news and forums where people discuss her whereabouts. Not sure if you can find any non finnish articles however.
Or "sufficient voter fraud that would change the outcome of an election".